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��teer; The House of the Wizard; The Cardinal's Musketeer; The Cobbler of Nlmes; Anne Scarlett; Little Mistress Goodhope; My Lady Clancarty; The Impersonator; The Reaping; Caleb Trench; The Lotus Lantern (with Martin Sabine); con- tributor ot abort stories to magazines. EJplsco- palian.

TAVLOR, Mary Isabella Morrison (Mrs. Seneca Newbery Taylor), 4220 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo.

Born Williamsville, Mo., June 8, 1864; dau. Thomas Donald and Sarah Ellen (Williams) Morrison (parents died when she was very young); ed. at uncle's home by tutor; Cape Girardean Normal and Lincoln (111.) Univ.; m. Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 1896, Seneca New- bery Taylor; one daughter: Leah Shannon Tay- lor, b. June 19, 1900. Taught public school two years. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage League of St. Louis. Presbyterian. Republican (Progressive). Mem. Civics Soc, Wednesday Club of St. Louis. Recreations: Driving, gardening, reading.

TAYLOR, Sarah Ellen, Talladega (Ala.) College;

home address, 451 High St., Lonsdale, R.I.

Teaoher; b. in England, Dec. 30, 1883; dau. William B. and Sarah Ellen (Wood) Taylor; grad. Brown Univ., A.B. '04, final honors In Greek and German, A.M. '10 (Phi Beta Kappa, elected 1903). Teacher of Greek, German and botany, high school, Methuen, Mass., 1905-08; teacher of preparatory Latin and Greek in Talla- dega Coll. since 1911; present work Includes visi- tation of negro homes and gives opportunity for first-hand knowledge of economic and social con- ditions; has done literary work and taught in a business college. Teacher In Sunday-school for past 11 years; active for several years in Chris- tian Endeavor work; Interested in the social, moral and intellectual progress of the negro race and in summer of 1912 addressed 15 audiences on the subject. Mem. Brown Univ. Alumnae Ass'n. Recreation: Supervision of girls' athletic work in Talladega College. Primitive Methodist. Favors woman suffrage. TAYLOR, Sarah Kntberine (Mrs. Austin W.

Taylor), Friendship, Me.

Minister, editor; b. Danielson, Conn., Nov. 19, 1847; dau. Reuben and Susan Angeline (Park- hurst) Paine; ed. in district schools and by private study; m. Hampton, N.H., Sept. 3, 1869, Rev. Austin W. Taylor. Began active religious work as leader of children's meeting and writer for religious papers, 1866-68; in office of The Christian, Boston, 1868-69; in evangelistic work with husband. 1869-78; associate castor, with hus- band, at Kennebunkport, Me., 1878-79; pastor, 1894-98, and since then associate pastor at Rock- land, Me. Founder, pres., business manager and editor of Advent (Christian Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Soc. ; made a world tour of missions, 1908-09. Organizer, pres., business manager and editor of Bible Faith Mission since 1910. Author: Wives and Widows of India; True but Partial History of Women's Home ana Foreign Missionary Society; God's Financial Method. Has been active in finding homes for homeless children, and took forty-three into her home until she could place them in Christian homes. Advent Christian. Favors woman suf- frage. XEASDAXE, Sara, 38 Kingsbury Pi., St. Louis,

Mo.

Poet; b. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 8, 1884; ed. St. Louis; grad. from Hosmer Hall in 1903. Author: Bonnets to Duse, 1907; Helen of Troy, 1911; con- tributor to Harper's, Scribner's, Century, Forum, Llppincotfs. Mem. Poetry Soc. of America, St. Louis Artists' Guild. Recreation: Traveling. Baptist. TELFORD, Emma Paddock (Mrs. William Hal-

sey Telford), Edgewood Lane, Palisade, N.J.

Author, editor, lecturer; b. Auburn, Cayuga Co., N.Y., Nov. 9, 1851; dau. Lewis and Fiorina (White) Paddock; ed. Auburn (N.Y.) High School; Elmira Coll.; special courses at Pratt Inst., Brooklyn; m. Auburn, N.Y., May 13, 1874, William Halsey Telford; one daughter: Mabel F. (now Mrs. H. D. Evans), of Mesa, Ariz. On

��N.Y. Tribune staff, 1898-1901; N.Y. Herald staff, 1503-04; Evening Telegram staff, 1904-11; now household editor of The Delineator, The De- signer, The Woman's Magazine; owns her own syndicate; lecturer on N.Y. Board of Education, 1900-12; subjects of lectures: Arizona, the Cradle and the Wonderland of the New World; Among the Indians of the Southwest; Among the People of the Balkans; Constantinople, Its People and Problems. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Book of Parties and Pastimes; Frolics for All Occasions; Standard Paper Bag Cookery; Good Housekeepers' Cook Book; Evening Telegram Cook Book. Presbyterian. Mem. N.Y. City League for Home Economics, Arizona Antiquar- ian Soc., American Home Economics Ass'n. Recreations: Travel and exploration. Mem. El- mira College Club of N.Y. City. Went to Turkey, the year after the great Armenian massacre, to study conditions there at first hand. At the same time wrote war news of the clash between Greece and Turkey for N.Y. Sun, N.Y. Press, Brooklyn Standard-Union. Has done much edi- torial work for World, Journal, Tribune and Times on Turkish and Balkan affairs.

TEiVrPLE, Laura, 3a Industrla, 76 Mexico City,

Mex.

College president; b. Warsanv, Pa.; dau. Sam- uel W. and Annie (Smith) Temple; ed. State Normal School, Edinboro, Pa.; Allegheny Coll., Meadville, Pa., A.B. '93, M.A. '96. Founder of an industr ..1 school in Mexico City, 1911; in- augurator ot first college course offered to women in Mexico, 1904. Student of Mexican archaeology; spent year 1909 in research work In the llbrariea of Europe, making a specialty of Mexican codices; owns home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Has written for local papers. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. Congress ot Americanists, College Women's Club, Mexico City. Appointed to take charge of educational work in Mexico City, 1903; drew plans for and inspected the construction of the Sarah L. Keen Coll., Mexico City, also purchased land and drew plans for the industrial school for girls near Chapultepec, which she founded.

TEMPLE, Mary Boyce, 316 W. Cumberland Av.,

KnoxvUle, Tenn.

Bom Knoxville, Tenn.; dau. Oliver Perry and Caledonia (Hume) Temple; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B '77. Organized and founded, Oct., 1893, the Bonny Kate Chapter D.A.R., of which she has been re- gent 1893-98, 1900-06, and again since 1910; vice- pres. Gen. D.A.R., 1898-1900; State regent, 1906- 08; State vice-regent, 1908-10. Has been active in exposition work; was on Tennessee com. for the Atlanta Exposition of 1895; first vice-pres. of Woman's B'd of Tennessee Centennial Exposi- tion, 1897; represented Tennessee at Paris Ex- position, 1900, and at Buffalo, 1901; only woman on the Jury of Higher Education at St. Louis Exposition, 1904, and a commissioner to the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. Special interest in education and uplift of the farmers and moun- tain whites of Tennessee. Founded at Univ. of Tenn. a short course in agiiculture, In memory of her father who, in 1S72, founded the first Farmers' Convention in the United States, and to whom In 1912 the Farmers' Convention of East Tennessee dedicated a handsome convention hall at the Univ. of Tenn. farm, called the Oliver Perry Temple Hall. Author: Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoll; also various sketches and letters of travel in Europe and in the Western part of America. Presbyterian. Mem. Woman's Welfare Dep't Nat. Civic Federation, Arehfeo'ogical Soc. of America (charter mem. of Tennessee branchl, Tennessee Woman's Press and Authors' Club! Organized 1885 and was first pres., serving five years, of the Ossoll Club (the first Southern club); at organization of Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs was elected its first corr. sec, serving four years; was also at same time State chairman of correspondence for Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Vir- ginia, West Virginia and Arkansas until each of these States had a federated club from which a member could be appointed State chairman; remained State chairman for Florida until 1898; mem. of B'd of Directors which. In 1898. erected

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